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Letters Patent No. 60,059, elated November 27, 1866.' i

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Y Be it known that I, HENRY REN'SQH, of Quincy, Adams county, State of Iliinois, have invented certain new` l and useful improvements in Apparatus for Cooling Beer and other Liquids; andI do herebyvdeclare the following description and accompanying drawings are suiiicient to enable any person skilled inthe art, or science, to j f which'it most nearly appertains, to make and use my s aid invention lor improvements, without further inven; l l

tion or experiment.

The nature of my invention and improvements consists in a perpendicular cylinder with kdouble walls supplied with cold water at the b ottom, and escaping at the top, and provided with receiving and distributing troughs at the top, and an opening atthe bottom for the escape `of the beer running down onV the inside` of the 3 cylinder. Also in a pipe to supply air and ventilatein the inside of Vcylinder,'and"carry oii the steam from the l liduor lbeing cooled.V Inthe accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a plan or top View of my apparatus for cooling beer or other liquids. Figure 2 isa sectionY of iig. 1, cut perpendicularly across the centre.

In these drawings, A is a tank or vessel made circular or otherwise to receive the cooled heer or other l" liquorfrom the cylinder B, arranged to stand on some supports, CvC,'in the "tank, which tank hasa pipe or cock, E, to draw oii' its contents. The cylinder, B, is made of two walls, F and G, of sheet metal, and with a l double bottomas shown in iig. 2, between which walls and bottom it is supplied with cold or ice water iiowing; l into the space between the walls, through the pipe H; ventering at the bottom of the cylinder, and rising up'tp the top, it iiows out through the pipes I I'and J, and passesoii` after it has cooled the beer' which iiows down in 3 a thin sheet on the outside and inside of the cylinder. KAround the top of vthe cylinder, I make a trough, K, i about the same width as the space between' the Walls of the cylinder. The sides of the trough Kare'perforated,` l as showrl at L L, for the beer, which iiows into the trough hot, to iiow out against-the guiding rims` M and t N, the bottom edges of which rims or iianges, are slit a little in from the edge, and `the metal bent so as tod` ilter or make the beer trickle or run down` in thin sheets on the sides of theV cylinder; theiguide rims being inclined withtheir lower edges against the cylinder as shownin iig. ,2.4 The beer, in passing down the sides of f the cold cylindenis' cooled, and is caught in the tank A, under the cylinder. `'.lhere is an opening, P, in the bottom of the cylinder for the beer which runs down on the inside of the cylinder,` to run outinto the tank. In

order to carry the steam oii` from the insidelof the cylinder, I put a pipe, Q, up through the bottom of the tank i p andlet it project up through the opening lf, so as to supply air to the interior of the cylinder, and give it free l ventilation. '.lodraw the water from `the cylinder, put a pipe, R, in the bottom, with. a cock, S, toudraw all the water out when required.

y I claim as my improvement a perpen dicular cylinder with doublel walls supplied with cold or ice `'Water at the bottom,` and escaping at the top, in combination with the receiving and distributing troughs at the top, and opening in the bottom of th'e cylinder for the escape of the beer running down ony the inside ofthe cylinder. And in bombination with the cylinder above claimed, I claim the pipe Q, or its .equivalent for supplying l air to the interior of the cylinder near the bottom to carry o if the steam or evaporation from the liquid bingfl cooled.' 4 l I'also claim the construction and arrangement of .the guiding rims M and` N, or flanges, for `the purpose l set forth.

HENRY RENSCH. Witnesses:

.W. Gr. Ewme,

'Grenen ERNST. 

